Heyo, want to improve the Hacker Noon experience? Take our reader survey. Why recap the work week when no one’s working? Because you’re working. Wanting to learn is no easy first, second or third step. Here are the top 30 Hacker Noon stories this week:
Common Sense
Agile Makes No Sense by John Cutler
Why businesses fail at machine learning by Cassie Kozyrkov
Tech Employee
Working for a “Big Company” Can Be Fun, If . . . by Erik P.M. Vermeulen
What makes a city “smart” in 2018? by Pranav Badami
Three ways writing tech blogs has helped me become a better engineer by Lily Chen
Don’t be a Junior Developer: The Roadmap by Andrei Neagoie
Dev Life
Backend-in-the-frontend: a pattern for cleaner code by David Gilbertson
Functional programming paradigms in modern JavaScript: Partial Application by Alexander Kondov
How I went from student to drop-out to software engineer by Wilfred Tannr Allard
How not to be a mediocre developer! by Dushyant Sabharwal
How to build powerful REST APIs blazingly fast with Node.js by Justin Headley
I abandoned React in favor of Hyperapp — Here’s why by Angelos Chalaris
Learn Business and Become a Better Software Developer by Stefan Pettersson
Supercharging Kafka — Enable Realtime Web Streaming by Adding Pushpin by Justin Baker
Parenting
Why My 11-Year Old Stopped Coding . . . Then Switched to Python by Rich Klein
Crypto, why not?
A crypto-trader’s diary — week 13; TRON by David Gilbertson. Full series.
Here Is What I Found Trading ERC20 Tokens in Decentralized Exchanges by Febin John James
How Could Blockchain Technologies Could Expand our Sex Life by Kirill Shilov
How Many Cryptocurrencies Are Simply Following the Market? by Anthony Xie
Scaling Blockchain
Difference Between SideChains and State Channels by vasa
Dive into the Refugee Camp in Jordan that Runs on Blockchain by Blockchain DuDe
How Blockchain can transform the world (part 1) by Anurag Reddy
How Blockchain Will Affect The Housing Market — Easier User Experience by Patrick Manfra
Social Trading - This Might Be The Next Big Hit by FundYourselfNow
2018 Token Sale Market: The State of Our Nation by Matt Markham
Listen All Around
Hacking Facebook with Powster Labs: Audio Focus for 360 Video by POWSTER
Startup Sales
Appsumo is the seed round for bootstrapped companies (we made $177,429 in two weeks!) by Nicolas Le Roux
How to get your First Potential Customers by Ash Rust
Venture Perspectives
5 Lessons from PillPack’s Sale to Amazon by Founder Collective
Great Power, Great Responsibility: The 2018 Big Data & AI Landscape by Matt Turck
Until next time, don’t take the realities of the world for granted.
Kind Regards